[PATCH 1/1] ARM: Exynos: Add generic compatible string
Tomasz Figa
t.figa at samsung.com
Fri Feb 21 10:21:36 EST 2014
On 21.02.2014 15:48, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 21 February 2014 14:18:49 Tomasz Figa wrote:
>>
>>> Now that we have a broader agreement on this, I think we can go ahead with the
>>> following steps as an initial approach:
>>> 1. Have a common machine file for both exynos4 and 5 files, mach-exynos-dt.c.
>>> 2. Introduce a generic compatible string "samsung,exynos".
>>> 3. Append this to the compatible property list for existing boards.
>>>
>>> If this plan looks OK, I can send across patches doing this.
>>>
>>
>> Looks good. I would also merge common.c with this resulting
>> mach-exynos-dt.c, as it would be the only user of the code there.
>
> Sounds good. While the naming is not important, I would just call the
> file 'exynos.c', in line with some of the other platforms we have.
> Both the 'mach-' and the '-dt' part of the file name are redundant.
>
> Alternatively, you could merge it all into common.c.
exynos.c sounds good to me.
Best regards,
Tomasz
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